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Fredrik Dentz
A Dutch civil servant and prolific publicist, he devoted much of his writing to the history and bibliography of Suriname and the wider Dutch colonial world. His work is especially valued for the way it gathered scattered historical details into accessible studies and reference material.
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Kuolemaan tuomittu : Kertomus Skotlannin vapaussodan ajoilta
by Fredrik Dentz
About the author
Born in Leeuwarden in 1876, Frederik Oudschans Dentz worked as a civil servant and became known as a researcher, bibliographer, and writer. He lived and worked in South Africa and Suriname, and his publications focused strongly on historical, biographical, and bibliographical subjects connected with Suriname and the Dutch West Indies.
He is remembered for compiling and publishing a large body of reference-minded work rather than for a single famous novel. Sources indicate that he produced dozens of publications, including studies on Surinamese history and Jewish settlement in Suriname, helping preserve material that might otherwise have remained hard to trace.
Oudschans Dentz died in Claremont, near Cape Town, in 1961. For readers interested in older historical writing, his work offers a window into how Suriname's past was documented in the early twentieth century.